Is Potters Bar rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 173 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Violent Crime.
| Crime Category | Incidents |
|---|---|
| Shoplifting | 52 |
| Violent Crime | 35 |
| Anti Social Behaviour | 22 |
| Other Theft | 15 |
| Vehicle Crime | 12 |
| Criminal Damage Arson | 11 |
| Burglary | 9 |
| Public Order | 9 |
| Other Crime | 2 |
| Drugs | 2 |
| Bicycle Theft | 2 |
| Theft From The Person | 1 |
| Possession Of Weapons | 1 |
| All Crime | 173 |
Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025
Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Potters Bar. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.
Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.
Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Potters Bar
We've taken the ten nearest places to Potters Bar and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Potters Bar has more crime than other surrounding areas.
| Location | Crime Incidents |
|---|---|
| Monken Hadley (2.56 miles) | 204 |
| Hadley Wood (2.56 miles) | 181 |
| Potters Bar | 173 |
| Chipping Barnet (3.17 miles) | 166 |
| South Mimms (1.86 miles) | 30 |
| Bell Bar (2.48 miles) | 29 |
| Brookmans Park (1.96 miles) | 16 |
| Bentley Heath (1.39 miles) | 9 |
| Botany Bay (2.77 miles) | 1 |
| Dancers Hill (1.75 miles) | 0 |
of Potters Bar Parkfield residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census
Where are the most violent places near Potters Bar?
The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Potters Bar and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.
| Location | Violent Incidents |
|---|---|
| Monken Hadley | 64 |
| Hadley Wood | 47 |
| Chipping Barnet | 43 |
| Potters Bar | 35 |
| Bell Bar | 14 |
| South Mimms | 5 |
| Brookmans Park | 5 |
| Bentley Heath | 1 |
| Botany Bay | 1 |
| Dancers Hill | 0 |
How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Potters Bar?
Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in Potters Bar to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.How does crime in Potters Bar compare to surrounding wards?
We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Potters Bar and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Potters Bar is ranked #8.| # | Ward | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Borehamwood Cowley Hill | 74 |
| 2 | Potters Bar Oakmere | 67 |
| 3 | Welham Green and Hatfield South | 57 |
| 4 | East Barnet | 54 |
| 5 | High Barnet | 54 |
| 6 | Borehamwood Kenilworth | 47 |
| 7 | Bentley Heath & The Royds | 47 |
| 8 | Potters Bar Parkfield | 46 |
| 9 | Oakleigh | 45 |
| 10 | Potters Bar Furzefield | 33 |
| 11 | Northaw and Cuffley | 27 |
Which road in Potters Bar has the highest level of crime?
We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Potters Bar with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around Mutton Lane.Information provided by data.police.uk
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